Dusting brush



Sept' 30, 1947.

DUsTING BRUSH Filed Aug 5' 1944 F. E. BEAGLE 2,428,306

l the present invention Patented sept. 3o, 1947 ATENT OFFICE 2,428,306 DUSTING BRUSH Florenz E. Beagle, Findlay, 'Ohio Application August 5, 1944, Serial No. 548,174 2 Claims. (Cl. 15g-147) The present Vinvention relates to dusters, brushes or the like and more particularly to a novel detachable duster, or brush, made from disposable material for use in barber shops and beauty parlors.

The health department, for example, in some States, requires that dusters or brushes for brushing loose hair from each customers face and neck be sterilized vor discarded after such use. Sterilization is not practical and such brushes if they are to be ldiscarded must be of inexpensive material.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a novel brush made of disposable material such as paper, soft cellulose material or the like for use 'in barber shops and beauty` parlors.

`Another object is to provide a novel method o f making brush inserts from strips of disposable material to thereby obtain a thick brush head and a shank o r base portion particularly adaptable for attachment within a suitable handle or holder.

Another object is insert for use with a suitable holder, which insert is so shaped and so formed as to be handily packed and shipped in relatively small coinpact packages.

.Another object is to provide a novel handle adapted to be retained for use with new duster or brush inserts for eachlnew customer and arranged to release the used inserts 'to be thrown away by merely squeezing the handle.v

A still further object provide a quick detachable holder for such disposable material.

The above and other objects and advantages of will appear more fully hereinafter from a consideration of the detailed description which follows, taken together with the vention. Reference for this latter be had to the appended claims.

In the drawings wherein like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views:

Figure l is a perspective view of a novel holder with a novel duster insert therein ready for use.

to provide a novel brush,

Figure 2 is 'a sideelevational View of the novel duster brush holder.

Figure 3 is a cross section view of the novel holder taken along the line 6 3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a bottom end View of the brush clamping jaws of the novel duster brush holder.

Figure 5 is a is inserted in the holder. y

VReferring to the drawingand first with particularvreference to Figure 5, there is shown a terial,

The sheets 1l are Vfastened together by a suitable means, such as a staple I'l, which is inserted through the several plies of stacked sheets i3 in the uncut shank portion l2 'to hold them together Aat one end,

y The several plies of elongated sheets I l may, out before stacking and stapling half before stacking and stapling through the folded over uncut portion, define the hereinbefore referred to shank portion I2.

Thus, as shown in Figure 1, the insert lo, may have the stapled uncut shank portion l2 thereof inserted in the holder l5 with the strips i3 freely depending therefrom.

The holder l 5 is of novel construction and comprises a forked wire frame E6 having a coil spring i1 at one end thereof, and a pair of legs I8 and coil Il.

Fastened as by soldering or the like, to the leg i8 is a handle section 2D, and similarly fastened Each handle secslidable between the sides 23 and 2li of section 2|. Normally when a brush insert I0 is in the holder l5, the outer longitudinal edges 25 and 26 of section 20 are always engaged between the outer longitudinal edges of the sides 23 and 24 of section 2 I.

The handles 20 and 2| may be substantially the same length, but are each shorter than legs I8 and I9 of frame I6, which legs I8 and I9 are bent inwardly below the ends of the handle sections 20 and 2 I, so that they cross and extend to equidistant diverging points 28 and 29, see Figure 2. From each point 23 and 29 the legs I8 vand I9 are bent downwardly into arms 30 and 3l on the inner facing sides of which are mounted jaws 32 and 33 of the duster brush holder I5.

The jaws 32 and 33 are U-shaped in cross section, see Figure 4, and are of substantially the same size, so that the peripheral edges of each U- shaped jaw are normally held in contact by coil spring I1 to thereby dene a closed rectangular clamping ring for the reception of the shank I2 of the duster brush insert I9. The jaws 32 and 33 comprise a clamping ring or split sleeve which forms a socket for receiving the shank portion of the brush insert.

Integrally deiined from the sides of each jaw 32 and 33, and bent inwardly toward each other are pointed lugs or teeth 34 and 35 adapted to bite into the material of the uncut shank I2, and thereby more readily retain the insert Ill between jaws 32 and 33, which as above stated are normally held clamped together by the action of coil spring I1, which biases arms 39 and 3| toward each other due to their crossed relation.

In actual use the handle sections 20 and 2| are squeezed together so as to spread apart the U-shaped jaws 32 and 33, whereupon the shank l2 of insert III is manually held therein until the pressure on the handle section is released and spring I'I clamps the jaws together and teeth 34 and 35 bite into the material or the shank I2.

The strips I3 are then spread apart and ruffed up, as shown in Figure 1 for use. After the barber has used the brush insert on a customer, he then may quickly detach the same by squeezing the handle sections 2| and 22 together to thereby release the shank I2 of the brush from between the jaws 32 and 33.

Thus there is provided a novel sanitary duster brush for barber shops and beauty parlors, which is economical and easily produced from diierent readily available materials and which complies with health regulations.

While the several features of the invention have been illustrated and described in considerable detail as an embodiment of only one form of the novel implement, other changes and modifications which will now appear to those skilled in the art may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Reference is therefore to be had to the appended claims for a, definition of the limits of the present invention.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new and desired to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Means for dusting loose hair and the like from barber shop patrons comprising in combination a brush of disposable material and a handle for said brush, comprising a pair of transversely telescoping channel sections, a yieldable frame having a pair of elongated leg members, one of each of said leg members being secured within one of said channel sections, resilient means in one end of said frame adapted to exert a force tending to spread said leg members apart, a pair of crossed arms in the other end of said frame adapted to be drawn toward each other by said resilient means, and an oppositely disposed jaw member secured to the end of each of said arms adapted to form a split clamping ring for said brush.

2. A holder for disposable duster inserts comprising a forked spring-wire frame including spring means at the rearend thereof for urging the legs of said frame apart, the two legs of said frame being crossed at the iront end thereof, a clamping socket for said duster inserts comprising a split sleeve having the two halves thereof carried by the crossed end portions of the legs of said frame and being urged into contact with each other by the action of said spring means, and a pair of handle sections each mounted on one of the legs of said wire frame, said handle sections comprising channel members arranged facing each other and having their sides extending towards each other in transversely telescoping relation.

FLORENZ E. BEAGLE.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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